Deprecated properties

Warning: While this property is still implemented in older browsers, the latest specification replaces it with the oldVersion and newVersion attributes. See the compatibility table to know what browsers support them.

Methods

Example

In the following code snippet, we make a request to open a database, and include handlers for the success and error cases. Upon a version change (after an upgradedneeded event), the success event will implement the IDBVersionChangeEvent interface. For a full working example, see our To-do Notifications app (view example live.)

var note = document.querySelector("ul");
// In the following line, you should include the prefixes of implementations you want to test.
window.indexedDB = window.indexedDB || window.mozIndexedDB || window.webkitIndexedDB || window.msIndexedDB;
// DON'T use "var indexedDB = ..." if you're not in a function.
// Moreover, you may need references to some window.IDB* objects:
window.IDBTransaction = window.IDBTransaction || window.webkitIDBTransaction || window.msIDBTransaction;
window.IDBKeyRange = window.IDBKeyRange || window.webkitIDBKeyRange || window.msIDBKeyRange;
// (Mozilla has never prefixed these objects, so we don't need window.mozIDB*)
// Let us open version 4 of our database
var DBOpenRequest = window.indexedDB.open("toDoList", 4);
// these two event handlers act on the database being opened successfully, or not
DBOpenRequest.onerror = function(event) {
note.innerHTML += '<li>Error loading database.</li>';
};
DBOpenRequest.onsuccess = function(event) {
note.innerHTML += '<li>Database initialised.</li>';
// store the result of opening the database in the db variable. This is used a lot later on, for opening transactions and suchlike.
db = DBOpenRequest.result;
};